Discount Hunting and Fishing, Flowood - BEWARE

[DoubleBandMS]

It's been like that for 25 years and it's not going to change. I remember going in there all the time when I was young, on the corner of Raymond road and shady lane. They don't care and never will. Van Allen has always treated me fair and Ill go out of my way to give him my business. Van knows customer service.

[Deltamud77]

Take it to the outfitter in Richland and see Camron......they will treat you right. Buck shoots the Razor Edge and they swaped the limbs on his bow for me there,,,,,,tell him Johnny sent you.

Wes has many "Bad Days" hes been a smart booty ever since he took it over from his dad....if it wasnt him I would be surprised....a bad day is one thing cause we all have them.....but to call a customer back to tell him hes a smartazz....really????...I bet he would not do it in person....at least not to me he wouldnt.

No lie...the one time I went to the Outfitter (which I am sure are otherwise good guys), I get out of my truck, walk around the hood towards the door and an arrow zooms by about three feet in front of me and into a target (shooting towards the highway no less). Don't know if he was employee or customer, but some jackleg dang near shot me with an arrow 5 feet from the front door.

Left a bad taste in my mouth.

[camlock]

Left a bad taste in my mouth.

bet it left a foul smell in your pants too!

[no fly zone]

not taking up for wes, but playing devils advocate here. I feel this is a larger problem that people take out of perspective alot. I am not in the hunting industry but deal with these issues on a regular basis.

perspective: discount hunting and fishing is a diamond/ bowtech dealer. Sounds as if you have a son whos in to archery so im sure you did some research before purchasing his bow, since likely he didnt purchase it himself. You purchased the bow from Bass Pro. maybe or maybe not aware that discount was also a dealer. Now you want to change the limbs, but do not want to go through the hassle of dealing with Bass Pro to get the new limbs and change out. So once you decided to not put[b] YOURSELF [/b]through the rat race of dealing with Bass Pro, you took it elsewhere and want someone else to do it, all the while, you did not purchase any products from his store, nor the bow. Also, as stated, he said he would install the limbs for free once they arrived.

I think we all need to sometimes take a step back and put ourselves in other peoples shoes, or ask ourselves what would we do. Everyone is preaching customer service, customer service. But unless Im mistaken, no monies have exchanged hands, no products purchased prior too. Im not saying repeat business classifies a customer, but customer service is directly related to a buyer and a seller. You cant have it without both sides. Every person who goes into that store knows its a "closet store". You go in there because you need something, when did we need a pat on the back to buy a case of dove loads?? Is it their fault, they didnt have what you needed? The next guy may walk in there and be tickled $#!+ at the selection. If you dont like it, dont go in there.

Of course he s problably irritated. while your re not asking for him to do something for free, you didnt buy the bow from him, he knows you could get the limbs from where you bought it but you just didnt want to deal with that so now hes got to place a value on his time, effort, etc of basically doing you a favor and you got irritated because he couldnt place a time frame on that.... Im not condoning him calling you a smartazz, thats uncalled for and not professional.

Again, im not condoning his actions, but i think we all need to gut check ourselves sometimes before we bring out the nightsticks and pitchforks.

I hope you get the little man ready to rock before the season. This was not intended to lay fault, just bring some perspective....... How far would you go in your line of work, business or day to day, for someone who didnt show you the same respect on the front end or in return?? Our society has forgotten the "golden rule" and our country is suffering because of it.

[deltadukman]

I dont know wtf you meant by that, but I was there when he said something to a friend I was in there with, and, with me being in a heavily customer service based business, I will choose not to shop there again. He's a cocky smart booty. How's that for perspective?

[99beers]

I dont know wtf you meant by that, but I was there when he said something to a friend I was in there with, and, with me being in a heavily customer service based business, I will choose not to shop there again. He's a cocky smart booty. How's that for perspective?

So, what do you do for a living? and shall we evaluate your work performance on a open internet forum? Please share.

[deltadukman]

Im an insurance agent. Many one this board are my customers. I am 100% certain that if I wede a blatent smart booty, arrogant, or just plain rude, word would get around. And surely, 3 pages + saying the same thing over and over again, everyone but the 2 people taking up for him must be wrong.

[mshunter77]

I work in a sporting goods store and I understand that everyone has their days. You have to try and put that to the side when you are dealing with customers. I deal with spooling reels, mounting scopes, stringing tennis racquets and other things and it does not matter if someone ought it from us or not they all get the same service. It does not matter that he did not buy the bow there, he had a to make a customer happy and create a new customer. Also I don't know anybody that would drop their bow off for work and not ask how long it would take. There are just too many people on here that seem to have had the exact same experience at this store.

[no fly zone]

calm down vickers. Im not taking up for wes, I dont know the guy and he wouldnt know me. I simply know his name from going in there from time to time. your in the insurance gig, what if I was going around town saying I had a claim that didnt go my way and you were my agent. And because of this, I wouldnt recommend you, while all the while, your re hands may have been tied with your companies guidelines etc.. You may not even get the chance at the next client.

I think people are missing the point of what im trying to simply establish so Ill try and clarify myself because i feel this topic has some importance, unlike most rant on here.

All the opinions, expieriences etc have resulted in negative expieriences for people. We are all grown men (for the most part) Everyone has the option of not going back into the store. His business has been hurt through loosing the people in the last three pages of posts. .. O.K fair enough. My question is who is really potentially loosing the most here??? I didnt read one post where he stole from someone, lied to someone, took someones money and did not produce the merchandise that was promised. Basically everyone felt that the customer service was bad or he was a smartazz; thats your opinion. Wes had a chance to gain a new customer, he didnt succeed... there are worse things in life.

A public forum or the public in general is not the place to cause potential detriment to someones livelyhood. with this post, he may have now lost "potential customers" in the future that he may have what their looking for, or can get what they need. Everyone who lives in rankin county knows that Discount basically is a gun broker and carries a little bit of other stuff.

As stated, I dont believe in evaluating a way a man makes a living on a public forum, especially one dedicated to be upbeat, and bring people together that have the sames hobbies and interests. At the end of the day, no one is forced to walk through his doors. There is a line to be drawn between someone intentionally screwing someone and people just feeling a little snubbed. I can put my name at the top of the list that I have problably pissed people off unintentionally or failed to make someone happy. But I know alot of guys in this post and they could problably say the same. Does that mean that we should all get on the internet and start throwing stones at each other to the point that may cause us to loose in the future??

........perspective...... help people repair their sails , not sink their ships. most of the time, the people who deserve it will suceed in doing that on their own.

[Dux Be Us]

The store guy invited this fella to dog his operation out...I say dog it till its dead

As a dealer of said bow...dude may be obligated to do repaires for free as such. Being a rep, I would let Bowtech know that a penis is representing them in Flowood Mississippi...JMHO

[deltadukman]

No fly, I assume you know me, but I dont have a clue who you are. But since you thought it would be cool to point me out specifically, I will state what exactly happened to make me form my opinion. Me and another guy were in there. This other guy had just "built" a Ruger 10-22 rifle. Owner/Wes had one on the counter that he had just "built". Said friend inquired what all he had done, and just to make conversation. I guess that is frowned upon in a sporting goods store these days, but I digress. Anhow, Wes was just a plain out d!ck. Said friend asked if he could pick up the rifle to look at it. He said in a round about way "you cant afford it so why do you want to look at it". We laughed and said why would you spend that much money to shoot a target at 75 yards when you can do it for a couple of hundred and walked out. I should be jumping up and down to do business with a guy like that. I guess all these other people are wrong too. Take your "perspective" and stick it up you booty. That guy is a d!ck and will get none of the money he thinks we dont have and I will make it a point to tell anyone else to do the same. I would assume that if I ever did anything like that in my business, that I would recieve the same treatment. I make it a point try be honest and upfront with my customers and go out of my way to make sure they know I am doing all I can to help them. If there is a problem I want it brough to my attention before it gets to something like this(and Ive had problems before so dont think Im saying this without fault, but I have dealt with them, learned from my mistakes, and tried to better myself. But I do like the way I stated my opinion just like the other 3 pages of folks who, by the way, have the same opinion of the place, and you decided to call me out, specifically, by name. Why I dont know.

[levi127]

Oh oh oh snap!!!
Personal experience somewhere either good or bad gets around. Now if it's 1 person saying it then yea something else could have been said or toes stepped on or just in a bad mood. But when multiple people back it then their is a obvious problem known and hasn't changed
But I don't see where no fly has so much care about building this guy back up or protecting the companies name.
Could it be Wes? A employee? Or best bud?

[no fly zone]

Ok, ok, before this gets out of hand, like usual, everyone is entitled to their opinion. Mine is not to share a bad experience in a public forum or setting when it envolves a persons livelihood, others is to do so. That's cool and I'm ok with everyone stating their opinion.

For the record, as stated don't know Wes, don't go in the store because it never has anything I need, and yes, personality is not his strong suit.

But on a different note, I like seeing the deltaduckman get all fired up!!

Vickers , do you want to meet in the wal mart parking lot and settle this like boys.. I didn't know we were suppose to be using "code names"

Simmer down, I know all your customers

Brett Mosley here

[no fly zone]

But I will say that the last post from Levi 127 proves at least some aspects of my point.

Even after two posts of saying I didn't know Wes, and this was just an opinion, somehow thats still what he got out of it or felt to try and turn this conversation on it's side.. As if their s a side to jump on here between myself and deltaduckman, who I ve known for years and partied together. Just because vickers didn't know my "handle" or whatever changed the way he perceived me and that I was attacking him while I feel I'm having the same conversation with him yelling over Stoney larue at pops , stealing pulls off his charter when he wasn't looking!!!

I would still disagree with him but obviously the audience wants more and perceives more and people want the pot to stir..and im not talking about just this topic or this site, but in general. Before I disclosed my name, dd and others were casting perceptions of me, and I'm not even the main topic of discussion here.. This just proves My OPINIONS which are like assholes, is why?? We have all wronged and been wronged. I don't know how to see how many "views" a post gets , but just because there are 3 pages of negativity doesn't show how many people read it..

It's got nothing to do with Wes, discount, customer service, the guy who just wants his sons bow to be right because he s being a good dad. It's all of us should think about what we say or do and how we would want ourselves being displayed in a public forum even when we've been in the wrong, because we all have and will

[bigoak]

stealing pulls off his charter when he wasn't looking!!!

Pretty funny right there. Maybe he does need to give you a beat down.

Back to the point. Sounds to me like the owner of the store does not need the money and it is just a hobby to him. Have seen this happen before where someone inherits a business that their parents or grandparents built up and ends up running it into the ground. It does not mean as much to them.